Alriiiight, Time Runs Out has finally run out of books! Well, I don’t think it was worth it unfortunately – Jonathan Hickman just isn’t my kind of writer and the series has been a mess throughout. One of the best Avengers titles ever written? Pfft – one of the stinkiest!
So what’s going on in the fourth and final volume? The same old rubbish that’s been chuntering along in the background this whole time: pointless battles between dullards while Doom and Molecule Man gear up for Secret Wars.
Why was Doom calling himself Rabum Alal – what was gained from the deception? Because that’s the kind of silly thing bad guys do? Why are the Shi’Ar intent on blowing up Earth when the entire universe is about to implode?? Because the Avengers need something to punch. Which is the same reason why Thor and Hyperion are fighting the Beyonders. Sigh… None of it’s interesting regardless of how dumb it all seems anyway.
Molecule Man’s explanation of what he is and his place in this disasterpiece was one of the few spots where I wasn’t yawning though Hickman’s such an unimaginative writer that he can only express important plot points through artless info dumps.
Oh but that stoopid ending – Tony and Cap having a punch up! Hickman’s written both iconic characters awfully and choosing to end a storyline where entire universes are being obliterated by focusing on two morons feudin’ just underscored how crummy and useless this lead-in to Secret Wars was.
Anticlimactic and uninteresting, Time Runs Out, hell, the whole of Hickman’s Avengers series, is overrated, badly written, poorly plotted, and barely coherent trash.
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